PTTEP to invest $24.6bn over five years

Eying investment: PTTEP chief Tevin Vongvanich details five-year spending plans

Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has said it will invest $24.67 billion in exploration and development between now and 2017.

The updated five-year investment plan represents an increase of around 25% on the $19.6 billion spend budgeted last year for 2012-2016.

Chief executive Tevin Vongvanich said the boosted investment aimed to “develop PTTEP’s organic growth projects to maximize the production volume, to serve the rising of energy demand as well as emphasize exploration plans to increase petroleum potentials with the investment cost control”.

PTTEP said it would sink the majority of the funds into organic growth projects both domestically and internationally.

Although the overall five-year budget is up, capital expenditure is forecast to…

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